July 13, 2008
Game 95: Rockies at Mets
Two streaks are on the line for the Mets tonight when Mike Pelfrey takes on the Rockies at Shea Stadium in the final game before the All-Star break. Not only...
A.J. BURNETT BEATS YANKEES 4-1 ON SHORT REST
They played like a team that had nowhere to go but was in a big hurry to get there. On the final day before the All-Star circus smothers The Bronx...
What a Drag! 'Dark Knight' Crew Dishes to The Post on Major Spoiler!
My very esteemed colleague, Sara Stewart, who gave Post readers an exclusive and very detailed look at "The Dark Knight'' a couple of weeks ago, today quotes producer Emma Thompson,...
THE PITCHING MARKET AND MORE
There are going to be plenty of starting pitchers available in the market even after the trade of C.C. Sabathia to the Brewers and Rich Harden to the Cubs.The key...
JIM LEYRITZ AT YANKEE STADIUM
Jim Leyritz, the most verbose of Yankees in his days as a player, took a statement out of a binder today and handed it to a reporter as his comment...
JIM LEYRITZ AT YANKEE STADIUM
Jim Leyritz, the most verbose of Yankees in his days as a player, took a statement out of a binder today and handed it to a reporter as his comment...
Easy Rider chats with his Pee Pee
Dennis Hopper has played lots of eccentric characters. But weâve never seen him talk to his penis â until now.It all goes down the first time Easy Rider appears as...
REMEMBERING MURCER
FROM JOEL SHERMANI am a sports fan of a certain age, in this case 44, so growing up in Brooklyn, I had plenty of friends who were Yankee fans and,...
REMEMBERING MURCER
I am a sports fan of a certain age, in this case 44, so growing up in Brooklyn, I had plenty of friends who were Yankee fans and, thus, many...
Box Office: 'Dave' Bombs, 'Hellboy' Scores
As I predicted on Friday, this weekend's big news is not that "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army'' led the boxoffice (with a very solid $35 million), but that "Meet Dave''...
Coverage in today's Post
Concern about the right shoulder of Pedro Martinez (pictured) overshadowed the surging Mets' eighth consecutive victory, a 3-0, one-hit blanking of the Rockies on Saturday. Colleague George Willis believes Pedro...
Miss at your own risk: Dramatic flair
Highlights for the week of July 13Bartenders and actresses strike backThe 10th season of "Big Brother" starts tonight.War filmHBO's "Generation Kill" follows the Marines of First Recon Battalion through the...
DVD Extra: Clooney/Wahlberg Double Feature For $7.50, Dustin for A Dime
Last week, I wrote about the 30 titles that Paramount is reissuing on DVD Aug. 6 with new covers under the label âI Love the 80s,ââ complete with a bonus...
25 BEST SHEA STADIUM MOMENTS: NO. 11
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Shea. This week, No. 11. Dec. 16,...
BRRRR! CYN DINES WITH THE SINNER
A chill was in the air as A-Rod was briefly reunited with his wife and daughter in Toronto yesterday. As the Yankee slugger took his estranged wife and daughter out...
THE WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSCARL ICAHN Gains momentum in ousting Yahoo! board after getting Microsoft back to the table.LEE SCOTT Wal-Mart CEO bucks retail trend with strong June sales.BUD SELIG Baseball commissioner kicks off...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 819; Lucky Sum: 18 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 1582; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Nos. Sat: 648; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Win- 4 Sat.:...
A-ROD'S GO-GO GAL IN 'HOME' RUN
Alex Rodriguez's multimillion-dollar real-estate firm cut a cozy condo deal with his stripper gal pal's family. The day before A-Rod and Joslyn Morse were "busted" together at a Toronto hotel...
EGO-BAMA, SWALLOW SOME OF THAT PRIDE
In his pre-campaign book, "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama proclaims, "I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that a...
SNOW LOSES HIS FIGHT WITH CANCER
Tony Snow, President Bush's former press secretary and a one-time speech writer for President Bush's dad, died yesterday after a battle with cancer. He was 53. "America has lost a...
LOHAN 'HALF-SIS' SNUBBING PA
The teen reported to be Lindsay Lohan's secret half-sister says she wants to meet her famous big sis - but not if their father is in the room. Ashley Kaufmann,...
GHOST OF A HOUSE
CHESHIRE, Conn. - Only an abandoned mailbox, covered in a riot of wildflowers, hints at the happy home that formerly graced the empty corner lot. The stately beige clapboard Colonial...
FOR ANGELINA JOLIE, A GIRL & A BOY
Mr. And Mrs. Smith have two new bundles of joy. Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie gave birth to healthy twins last night in Southern France, according to her doctor. Angelina Jolie...
WEINER ROLLS IN MAYOR-RACE $$
Rep. Anthony Weiner has collected $1.4 million in the past six months for his 2009 mayoral run. He has raised $5 million overall, his campaign said yesterday. With matching funds...
TALE OF TWO CANDIDATES
Barack Obama and John McCain like to highlight their differences, but their memoirs show they have more than a few things in common, particularly regarding their childhoods."Dreams from My Father,"...
TRYING TO FIX HIS MAC-HILLES' HEEL
It was a "five-alarm memo," written by adviser Steve Schmidt in late June, that finally roused the lumbering John McCain campaign. McCain, who had been consistently polling behind Barack Obama...
NAS' HOMAGE TO FAVE DEM
Barack Obama's latest unofficial anthem will get its official release this week - and it's not an Obama Girl song. New York rapper Nas' "Untitled" album, hitting stores Tuesday, features...
MARINE'S TRAUMA BECOMES TV DRAMA
"I've been in the ER all weekend," former Marine Staff Sergeant Eric Kocher says. "The doctors think it's traumatic brain injury. I got to get a CAT scan or something."...
BILL FACTOR HURTS HILL'S VP CHANCE
Barack Obama has put Hillary Rodham Clinton's name on his list of possible running mates, but there's one potential complication: her husband. According to top Clinton supporter Jill Iscol, Obama...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN * A man was gunned down outside his family's Brownsville home early yesterday. Lavar Ried-Paul, 23, was sitting on a bench in a courtyard at the Saratoga Houses shortly...
POL: PUMP UP GAS-THEFT LAW
A state lawmaker is looking to put the brakes on gas bandits by making fuel theft a felony. Citing a Post report last week on how high gas prices have...
NEW BUILD BOSS WILL RAKE IT IN
The Port Authority's new construction czar is a quarter-million-dollar man. David Tweedy, a former deputy commissioner at the city Department of Environmental Protection, has been named the PA's chief of...
BON JOVI-AL NIGHT
Central Park was transformed into the Garden State last night, as legions of fans - many of whom had camped out overnight - packed the Great Lawn for a rollicking...
CIPRIANI CLAN EYED IN LINK TO EX-MOB CEO
Restaurateur Giuseppe Cipriani's mob-linked former right-hand man says his ex-boss knew about his criminal past when he was hired fresh out of prison. "How could you hide me?" Dennis Pappas,...
MACHETE MANIAC HACKS 2 MEN IN WILLIAMSBURG
A man wielding a machete sent two men to the hospital early yesterday in Williamsburg - in the latest of an explosion of assaults in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood. The...
OLMERT $CANDAL DEEPENS
A travel-expense scandal threatening to bring down Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Olmert involves the same travel agency he used during an alleged fraud two decades ago, a newspaper reported yesterday....
ANGUISH OF 'STOCK' SPLITS
TWENTY years of marriage - and it collapsed just like the Dow. "Cindy" and "Tom" met at a high school in the city and stayed together through thick and thin...
THE DISTORT AUTHORITY
The former head of the Port Authority may have violated federal securities rules by painting a rosy picture of the botched redevelopment of the World Trade Center, legal experts told...
DORM'S MANY SEX CASES
The reported gang rape of a New Jersey coed who later killed herself wasn't the first alleged sex crime at a small Rockland County Catholic college. At least four sex...
BUS-CRUSH GUY SEEKS GOOD SAM
Almost every day, a celebrated Manhattan architect and interior designer goes to a Midtown bus stop searching for a good Samaritan who saved him from possible amputation after a city...
IPHONES IN SHADY 'HACK AND HAWK'
As the new $199 iPhone sequel is flying off the shelves at Apple stores, renegade retailers are hawking hacked-into iPhones at $699 a pop. One souvenir shop, Liberty Gifts on...
DISHONOR GUARD
A female guard is under investigation for "undue familiarity" with an accused cop killer after Rikers Island surveillance tapes captured her escorting the inmate to the showers in the middle...
PETER: I'D STILL BE PAL TO CHRISTIE
Christie Brinkley's chastened ex-husband Peter Cook held court for reporters on Long Island yesterday, saying he had no regrets about marrying the stunning supermodel, and that he hoped they could...
VIDEOGAME RIVALS ARE READY FOR VIRTUAL WAR
LOS ANGELES - The two biggest rivals in the videogame industry are set to strut their stuff at the biggest videogame conference this Tuesday. Harmonix, the Electronic Arts-owned creators of...
INDYMAC'S DEFIANCE
The federal government's seizure of IndyMac Bancorp last week - the second-largest federally regulated bank failure ever - didn't have to happen. Just eight days ago, Mike Perry, the CEO...
BEER-BARREL POKER
While Carlos Brito, InBev's hard-charging CEO, and August Busch IV, Anheuser-Busch's CEO, are expected to make like old drinking buddies this week - agreeing to a deal at an enhanced...
TINSELTOWN WON'T IGNORE NJ AUTHOR A SECOND TIME
ONCE again it looks like Hollywood will be following France's lead - and best-selling New Jersey mystery writer Harlan Coben will profit from Tinseltown's timid ways. Shortly after Delacorte Press...
GET A MORTGAGE, OR PAY ALL CASH?
Dear John: I am looking to purchase a studio apartment for $107,000 in cash. I have no outstanding debts and an excellent credit score of 850 to 900. I'm a...
ESTEEMED GALLERY OWNER TIED TO $1B ART FRAUD SCANDAL
Doug Chrismas, a veteran Manhattan and Los Angeles art gallery owner, found himself in the middle of a $1 billion international fraud case last week after federal agents seized a...
DIMON'S IN A HUFF
It sounded like all of Wall Street was playing a giant game of Clue last week - wondering who in the financial community helped kill Bear Stearns with what weapon...
FANNIE'S BEEN IN ARREARS
ONCE again Ronald Reagan had it right. Back in the mid-80's the Reagan administration pushed hard to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at a time when doing so in...
MOGULS HIT BUMPY GROUND
The table was set, the guests had arrived, but nobody ate the meal. That, in a nutshell, is the best way to describe Yahoo!-Microsoft, the biggest deal that wasn't at...
DEP TAPS WATER BOARD FOR STAFF REWARD$
A CITY agency operating under federal probation is using cash rewards to help motivate workers to meet health and safety targets so it can pull free of Washington's monitoring. Invoking...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
A chatty burglar talked his way into jail. Not-so-slick thief John Michael Baker broke into a Texas couple's house, only to stop during his getaway to chitchat with one of...
BUM RAP
The judges' ridiculous decision in "Home Street Home" (July 9) does have one positive aspect: With a stroke of the pen, the Appellate Division has done away with homelessness. If...
HO HO HO
I don't believe we should throw stones at Ashley Dupree, but why on Earth is she possibly getting her own MTV show ("Eliot Gal Hooking a Deal," July 9)? I...
IT'S NO MYTH
"A Myth That Kills" (Michael Fumento, PostOpinion, July 3) shortsightedly asserts that a disproportionate amount of private and public dollars have gone to fighting the AIDS, robbing other more treatable...
RAPPEL-ENT
I think that The New York Times' approach to deterring building climbers is all wrong ("Climb-ate Change," July 10). Instead of criminal prosecution, the Times should sit each apprehended climber...
JOURNALISM UNDER FIRE IN IRAQ
Recently in Baghdad, there was a barrage of gunfire. I listened from my bedroom in Fox News' private compound. It continued. I turned on my walkie-talkie, but there was no...
WARTUBE
If YouTube proved the natural home of anyone who happened to find himself in simultaneous possession of a camera phone, some Mentos, and a can of Diet Coke, then the...
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY
Benjamin Franklin had 69 illegitimate children. Betsy Ross murdered her three husbands. And houses in America used to be taxed by width. You can learn these and other surprising facts...
GOTHAM KNIGHTS
Since the late 1990s, more than 18 police commanders have left the New York City police department to run their own agencies elsewhere. This unprecedented migration has spread the Compstat...
THEY'RE BABIES (NO, REALLY)
The baby boomers - that prominent group of middle-agers whose massive numbers invite never-ending dissection and speculation - have once again spoken. What they have said is, "Waaaaaahhh." This according...
BARKING MAD IN THE UK
Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offense. Guidelines being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police...
IN MY LIBRARY: STEPHEN COLLINS
Stephen Collins - who, as the wise Rev. Eric Camden of "7th Heaven," raises the collective IQ of TV dads several hundred points - isn't faking it. Not only did...
"TWILIGHT" VAMPS IT UP
With the world's attention focused on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series over the last, oh, decade, no one would blame you for overlooking Stephenie Meyer's romantic, supernatural-themed Twilight Saga. But...
"THE SCIENCE OF FEAR"
In the center of the human brain there is an almond-shaped organ known as the amygdala. We inherit this organ from our animal forbears and it is the fulcrum of...
REQUIRED READING
Heirloom Notes From an Accidental Tomato Farmer by Tim Stark (Broadway Books) Funny how things work out. Starks was a management consultant and struggling Brooklyn writer. Couldn't get a book...
"A PATH OUT OF THE DESERT"
In recent days, commentators of both left and right have noticed Senator Barack Obama's efforts to adopt as many of President Bush's policies as he can in the hope of...
"AMERICAN WIFE"
American Wife Random Hous"American Wife" is an odd book. It's a first-person account of Alice Lindgren, later Blackwell, a librarian who meets a charming, underestimated man whom she marries. He's...
"TUNA: A LOVE STORY"
Tuna are the biggest, fastest, warmest-blooded, warmest-bodied fish in the world, and quite possibly the most tasty. All of which conspire, as Richard Ellis details in "Tuna," to make them...
GOLISANO GOOFS AGAIN
If upstate billionaire Tom Golisano thinks the PAC he announced last week will mitigate his rep as New York's top political flake, he's wrong. Golisano spent more than $100 million...
ANOTHER ACORN SCANDAL
The folks at the far-left radical activist group ACORN are embroiled in a financial corruption and cover-up scandal that they managed to keep hidden from their donors and political partners...
LIBS COMEBACK A TOTAL SHOCK
The Liberty had a 14-0 run to get back in it. And a 14-0 run to make it a victory. Don't misunderstand. There wasn't one 14-0 run for the Liberty...
BOBBY WAS PINSTRIPED ICON, THEN & NOW
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - This is one way to understand what the Yankees mean to the people, and to the sport, by coming to the Hall of Fame, by walking its...
YANKEES MAY BE LOOKING PAST '08
Opposing teams say the Yankees' strategy right now appears to be to determine if they are truly in the race in the next 10 days, and if so, then act,...
BACK TO THE FUTURES
Tino Martinez will make his managerial debut today when he takes the helm of the World Team in the Futures Game at Yankee Stadium and although he hasn't done a...
YANKEES ICON MURCER DEAD
Yankee icon Bobby Murcer died yesterday at the age of 62 because of complications from brain cancer. He passed away at Mercy Hospital in his hometown of Oklahoma City, surrounded...
SEE MY LAWYER
TORONTO - The Rogers Centre customer who has Alex Rodriguez' 537th home run ball that sent Rodriguez past Mickey Mantle into 13th place on the all-time list wants to talk...
A-MILESTONE HR
TORONTO - From Madonna to The Mick with the start of a messy divorce in between, it's been a helluva week for Alex Rodriguez. With future ex-wife Cynthia claiming Madonna...
A CLASSIC LOOK BACK
It was known then as the "new Yankee Stadium," so you can imagine just how long ago it was that the All-Star Game was last played in The Bronx. Why,...
HONDO TURNING TWO
Hondo, still flying high over his Friday night win with the O's, bagged another beauty last night as he kept it reel with the Marlins to increase the haul to...
'ROCKS' TOPS CURLIN IN MAN O'WAR
A trip to France for the Oct. 5 Arc de Triomphe is on hold after Curlin, America's reigning Horse of the Year, finished second making his turf debut in yesterday's...
AMAZIN'S FIND A LOT TO LIKE ABOUT IKE
Over the course of the Mets' 46-year-history, the title of best homegrown first baseman belongs to Ed Kranepool. No offense to the New York native but - despite an All-Star...
VOICE OF REASON
ONE way to satisfy a big itch is to give it a good scratch. And Greg Marotta has had this in his head the past three, four years. "I tune...
FOX 'SCOOP' ON MURCER NEWS COMES LATE
Even sad sports news is attached to network self-promotion and dishonest implications that the network should be credited with the scoop. In the top of the fifth of Rockies-Mets yesterday,...
WRIGHT . . . AND WRONG
* Considering the daily headlines about Alex Rodriguez's scandalous behavior, it was refreshing to read Kevin Kernan's column about David Wright ["Vote Wright way," The Post and nypost.com, July 10]....
SPORTS SHORTS
TENNIS: Chang inducted to Hall Michael Chang was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame yesterday. He won the 1989 French Open at age 17 - the youngest man...
COLD, HARD CASH
THE revenue increases cited by the NHL are equally as misleading as the overall losses claimed by the league four years ago via the Levitt Report. Back then, an inordinately...
25 BEST YANKEE STADIUM MOMENTS: NO. 11
As both New York baseball stadiums prepare to close, The Post looks back at the 25 most memorable moments in the history of Yankee Stadium. This week, No. 11. April...
IT'S NO BARE MARKET
THE trades of C.C. Sabathia to the Brewers and Rich Harden to the Cubs could have been featured on one of those eHarmony commercials, so ideal were the matchups of...
MAJOR OPENING
When the best players in the world descend on Royal Birkdale for the British Open this week, they will find the landscape of the game so dramatically changed it will...
THE RUMBLE
Diamond her best friend Baseball first love of Olympian Walsh As some of the world's best beach volleyball players get set to hit the sands of Coney Island July 18-20...
VAC'S WHACKS
If they want to make the World Series of Poker watchable again, may I suggest adding Teddy KGB to the final table every year and, if KBG happens to win,...
SWAP SHOP IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
THE Swap Shop is open, and already teams have made some interesting deals. C.C. Sabathia is now in Beer Town, and Rich Harden has blown into the Windy City. What...
NRA EXPOSES TWISTED CURRICULUM
THE Web site NRA huntersrights.org has reported before on animal rights' groups that try to push their so-called educational materials into our school systems, but none have been as crazy...
PROPER MANAGEMENT
Perhaps it was meant simply as wholehearted praise for Jerry Manuel, but for the second time in three days, Mets closer Billy Wagner sure sounded as if he was taking...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q & A WITH...
Steve Serby caught up with new Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni to talk a little about his past and his team's future. Q: What won't you tolerate on and off the...
TRAINING IN SARATOGA
LAS VEGAS - Mike D'Antoni's offense requires a pack of thoroughbreds, so what better place for the new era to kick off than Saratoga. D'Antoni revealed the Knicks will hold...
A SUMMER OF LOVIN'
LAS VEGAS - It's just two summer-league practices in a high school gym in the desert, but Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni sounded relieved yesterday after watching Italy's Danilo Gallinari be...
GROIN & BEAR IT
A historic moment for the Mets was overshadowed by a worrisome pop in Pedro Martinez's surgically repaired right shoulder yesterday. That popping sound caused Martinez to be lifted after just...
CHURCH VOWS TO RETURN SOON
Fresh off another round of medical tests, Ryan Church returned to Shea Stadium yesterday vowing to be back in the Mets' lineup shortly. "I believe I'll be back sooner than...
SHEA IN THE SHUN
IF HE were a Stallone, he would be Frank. If she were a Brady, she would be Jan. If he were a Beatle, he would be Stu Sutcliffe. If he...
METS, PEDRO DODGE BULLET
WHEW! That was the collective sigh of relief coming from the Mets clubhouse late yesterday afternoon, but it had little to do with a record-setting 3-0 win over the Rockies...
DOOLING ON JERSEY'S RADAR
The Nets have added three drafted players, two free agents and acquired two forwards for the price of one in the past three weeks. And team president Rod Thorn says...
Omar: Standing pat for now
He admits it is far from the sexiest response, but Mets GM Omar Minaya -- at least for now -- isn't expecting his club to make a big splash in...
INDIAN SUMMER
THE Indians have in vaded American chess. Two weeks ago, 15-year-old Parimarjan Negi of New Delhi won an international tournament in Philadelphia in a field of 39 players from five...
LOST & FOUND
IT'S an all-too-common scenario: An elderly lady dies, and her beloved dogs wind up at an overcrowded animal shelter where they find themselves in danger of being killed just for...
BELIEVE THE HYPE, PT. 2
Sennheiser MX w1 $499.95; sennheiserusa.com These stereo earbuds may resemble black praying mantises perched on your ears, but they're worth the strange looks you'll get, considering how they'll free you...
WEB SLINGER
On the Waterboard VanityFair.com For Vanity Fair's August issue, Christopher Hitchens allowed himself to be "waterboarded" in order to come to a true understanding of the interrogation tactic. His verdict?...
JULY 13 - 19
Batting for (big) bucks MON 14, SPORTS Chelsea Piers Lighthouse, Pier 61 (at West 23rd Street) All those hours playing stickball in the street could pay off huge for one...
PHILIPPE PETIT
Those idiots who climbed the New York Times building have nothing on Philippe Petit. On August 7, 1974, the French street performer stepped onto a high wire he and a...
BRIDGE
ALFRED Sheinwold told about two players who always settled their differences in quiet and reasonable terms. One night the process was so quiet and reasonable that two squad cars were...
NOR-WEIRD-IAN TUNES ARE THE 'THING'
A tousled-hair man plucks the clack of dancing skeletons from his banjo while his dark-eyed companion draws her fiddle bow across an ordinary saw to summon a room-permeating banshee wail....
AIN'T NAS STOPPING
Nas believes there's a n - - - a inside us all - regardless of skin tone. "There are white n - - - - s, black n - -...
LIVE FROM NY
"Passing Strange" is one of the most truly rockin' rock musicals in the history of the Great White Way. So it's poetic that when it came time to record the...
BAT TOYS
DURING a spine-chilling chase scene in "The Dark Knight," the Batmobile undergoes a Hulk-like transformation, shaking with increasingly jarring frequency until something entirely new emerges - the Bat-Pod, a motorcycle...
HEATH'S LAST ROLE
"LET'S put a smile on that face!" From the moment Heath Ledger's Joker hissed those words in one of the first trailers for "The Dark Knight" - Warner Bros. has...
SLOVENIA INVADES NY
THE Slovenians are coming! The Slovenians are coming! Wednesday through July 22, the Film Society of Lincoln Center will unreel 13 features from Slovenia, a Central European nation (not to...
MORGAN FREEMAN: HOW I MENTORED BATMAN
AS Lucius Fox, CEO of Wayne Enterprises and Batman's gadget guru in "The Dark Knight," Morgan Freeman plays the designer of some of the coolest toys this side of James...
PROOF POSITIVE
If Cruzan's new Guava Rum has a target demographic, it's college kids wasting away on hurricanes, pina coladas and Bahama Mamas in Wildwood. Unfortunately, this new liquor - billed as...
SAVORY TREATS
The General Greene 229 Dekalb Ave., Brooklyn; (718) 222-1510 Pastry chefs have been moving into the spotlight with restaurants like Graffiti (Jehangir Mehta) and Tailor (Sam Mason). Now, from Gilt...
SKOLNIK, 25, AND DIMARCO 29
May 17 - When Beth DiMarco found her West Village apartment filled with candles, flowers and champagne upon returning from a date with Kevin Skolnik, she knew something was up....
CHU, 30, AND CURTIS, 32
June 21 - Lisa Chu knew she scheduled a date with Coltrane Curtis for Thursday. So when she started to receive "Where are you?" e-mails from Curtis on Wednesday, she...
PERDOMO, 40, AND BENITEZ, 47
May 18 - First Elizabeth Perdomo and Alberto Benitez tied the knot, then they mixed sand - not your typical wedding ritual! The Bronx couple and their children poured different...
MURPHY, 37, AND LEFEBVRE, 31
June 7 - Vanessa LeFebvre and James Murphy like to joke about how they met. Sometimes they tell people it was on the B train, other times Murphy was rescuing...
FAMOUS FLINGS WITH BALD GUYS CAN'T MATCH SP
IN New York, celebrities abound. So much so that it's actually not that hard to date - or fool around with - them. I've gone out with Moby (he sniffed...
MEET MARKET
Mark, a 38-year-old piano player and singer from the Lower East Side, is looking for a girl who enjoys the sights and sounds of the city as much as he...
DINNER AND A MOVIE-MAN MISHAP
Film fanatic Tom mixes business with pleasure as a film- and TV-production associate. So when the 26-year-old met up with Kateri, 27, a photo editor, he was hoping for a...
El Duque back on the mound
After missing the first few months of the season, Orlando Hernandez is finally getting back on the mound. He made his second rehab appearance Friday night for the Mets High-A...
'CLOSER' HEATS UP
The fourth season of "The Closer" gets off to a fiery start as L.A.P.D. Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) hunts for an arsonist who has set Los Angeles'...
TWO-MINUTE WARNING: 'OFFICE' SHORTS ON-LINE
Taken together, NBC's new on-line episodes of "The Office" add up to little more than a third of a single episode of the series. There are four of the mini-episodes...
BORN TO 'KILL'
The naked hunger for bloodshed that was the driving for behind an elite group of Marines during the very earliest days of the Iraq War is the focal point of...
GETTING 'CLEAN'
To win the part of ex-junkie and present-day interventionist and William Banks, actor Benjamin Bratt had to convince the producers of A&E's new drama series "The Cleaner" that he wasn't...
PRIMETIME
Last Nov. 28, NBC presented a two-hour show predicated on capturing one live shot, the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. But as Al Roker counted the moment...
CHANNEL 13 STANDARDS DESTROYED BY F-BOMBS
Once upon a time, you could count on public television to be an oasis of decorum, civility and maturity. Not anymore, though, now that Ch. 13 is playing movies that...
REEL GOOD
NURSE BETTY (2000) Tuesday, 8 p.m., Showtime A waitress (Renee Zellweger) who becomes delusional after the murder of her two-dollar hustler husband (Aaron Eckhart) comes to believe she's a nurse...
IN A 'FLASH'
The dark-eyed man pointing a gun at a middle-aged blonde and shouting in some Eastern-bloc language is not to be reasoned with. In CBS' new action drama "Flashpoint," it's Sgt....
DON'T MISS LIST
CATEGORY: DRAMA Holy revenge Grace (Holly Hunter) confronts her past in the second-season premiere "Saving Grace." While off duty, Grace chases down a subject who turns out to be one...
'PROJECT RUNWAY' SEASON 5
"We don't have a Christian," says Tim Gunn, "Project Runway's" mentor and style guru, as he considers the latest crop of scissor-happy designers and harks back to last season's wunderkind...
Bruney struggles in Trenton rehab start
After having great success with the Gulf Coast League Yankees during the first part of his rehab from a torn Lisfranc ligament in his right foot, Yankees reliever Brian Bruney...
Marc Anthony and the Mets
Insert your own joke here: Pop singer Marc Anthony, otherwise known as Mr. J-Lo, will take batting practice at Shea Stadium at 3 p.m. Sunday before the Mets-Rockies game later...